On Wednesday 24 May 2017 04:46:04 Jon Foster wrote:
> On 05/23/2017 10:45 AM, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> > On Friday 19 May 2017 18:06:18 Jon Foster wrote:
> >> On 05/07/2017 03:05 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> >>> On 2017-05-07 08:20, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> >>>> MSElang has been designed as a high performance language so it can't
> >>>> be so simple.
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>> Although many on the FPC mailing list seem content to come up with
> >>> excuses or blame Graeme for poor design it seems to me the real
> >>> questions is: Why is x/y, when both are declared as singles, sooooo
> >>> much slower in FPC then it is in language X. So I'd really like to see
> >>> how MSElang scores in this arena. I've been contemplating some game
> >>> scenarios and I've been keeping my eye out for an improved language.
> >>> Maybe I should get on board with MSElang.
> >
> > Please read Jonas mail about the problems of the testcase:
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-pascal%40lists.freepascal.org/msg46162.h
> >tml
>
> Yes, I've read his post and he had an idea or two that might improve FPC's
> performance somewhat. I think Graeme addressed him with a reply. The bottom
> line was that the identical code runs amazingly faster in other languages.
That is wrong, the code is not identical. Please read the mail again,
especially about the differences of round().
[...]
> Your image looks like its probably doing things right but the output is
> scrambled. The x & y dimensions in the array that I substituted for the SDL
> drawing surface are probably reversed.
So it is better:
"
var
screen: array [0..s_h-1, 0..s_w-1] of LongInt;
texmap : array[0..16*16*16*3-1] of LongInt;
map : array[0..64*64*64-1] of smallint;
procedure plot(x,y,c : LongInt) {$ifdef FPC}inline{$endif};
begin
screen[y, x] := c;
end;
"
> So what's MSElang's frame rate and on what kind of machine/OS?
>
Not ready yet.
Martin
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